San Francisco spent $54 million to build and equip a new STEM-focused middle school to serve low-income black students — and lure...

Thousands of Bay Area teenagers have attended four-day camps that claim to teach empathy and leadership by screaming insults and enacting...

With charter schools, urban parochial schools and “a few unicorn-y school districts” showing that low-income black and Latino kids can do...

New York City’s elite high schools are filled with Asian-American students — many from low-income, immigrant families — who’ve aced the...

Asian-Americans are less likely to get into Harvard, despite higher grades and test scores and stronger extracurriculars than other...

Carlos Huerta, an engineering student at Downtown College Prep Alum Rock High, works on wheels for a “drop-and-dash” robot for the...

Remember Evergreen State College in Washington and the “no whites allowed” fracas of last year?  Has it perhaps harmed the school’s...

The switch to Common Core instruction was annoying, intriguing, inconsistent and sometimes unnoticeable, concludes a survey of 54...

At a highly selective public magnet school, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology near Washington D.C., 65 percent of...

One in 59 eight-year-olds has autism spectrum disorder, according to a new Centers for Disease Control report. The rate of autism...

all their students made the grade — not just some of them, not just the White ones and the middle-class ones.” Under No Child Left Behind...

Beth Hawkins writes about what it’s like when your child’s teachers don’t really believe he can learn. Her older son was offered learning...

Most KIPP graduates feel a sense of belonging in college, according to a survey released by the charter network. However, “the majority...

School choice encourages integration and gentrification in low-income, minority neighborhoods, writes Matt Barnum on Chalkbeat. “The...

Remember Ebonics? Worried about black students’ reading skills, Oakland’s school board declared black English to be a separate,...

Success Academy Cobble Hill is one of a handful of New York City schools with a racially and economically diverse student body and a very...

Screening all children for giftedness could help close the “gifted gap” and reduce inequality, suggests a Fordham report. Only 6.1...

Percentage of children and youth ages 3–21 served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) by race/ethnicity: 2014–15...

Gifted classes in Miami schools include a mix of low-income and minority students, reports Claudia Rowe for the Seattle Times. That’s...

At 25 percent of urban charter schools, 99 percent of students are non-white, reports AP. That compares to 10 percent of traditional...